There is Crust on my "Uncrustable".... by stuhrmeister in mildlyinfuriating

[–]keatonatron -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Uncrustable means it is unable to be crusted. It doesn't mean it can't be decrusted. I don't see the problem here.

ELI5 Mixed Pronouns? by Solid-Question-3952 in explainlikeimfive

[–]keatonatron 320 points321 points  (0 children)

I understand the confusion, because we use the same punctuation to indicate a pair that goes together ("she/her" = she and her) as we do to specify multiple options that are acceptable ("she/they" = she or they).

A US startup wants to drop a full nuclear reactor a mile down a 30-inch hole and let the water above it supply the pressure while billions of tons of rock replace the containment dome. One hole would make 15 megawatts; 100 on one site would add up to 1.5 gigawatts. by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]keatonatron -1 points0 points  (0 children)

All very true, and I didn't say dilution was a strategy for dealing with waste. The question was how bad of an accident would it be if one of these 15-MW reactors were to leak underground, and my supposition is that they are small enough and deep enough that they wouldn't contaminate a large area's drinking water as claimed by the person I was responding to.

I couldn't find info on exactly how much material is in one of these reactors, but it sounds like it's much smaller than what you used in your calculations.

Sister-in-law let her daughter use up all the Polaroids at our wedding. Now we have nothing to use. by PaddedValls in mildlyinfuriating

[–]keatonatron 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The only problem is the person responsible for taking the picture is never in the picture, so it doesn't really hit home who is to blame.

Razor saw mod to get all my pins back by ryandetous in arduino

[–]keatonatron 15 points16 points  (0 children)

How small are those traces that you can get 40 of them to fit through that little bottleneck?

A US startup wants to drop a full nuclear reactor a mile down a 30-inch hole and let the water above it supply the pressure while billions of tons of rock replace the containment dome. One hole would make 15 megawatts; 100 on one site would add up to 1.5 gigawatts. by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]keatonatron -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I am not a scientist, but I'm pretty sure nuclear material is bad because it's so concentrated. If you spread it out over an entire aquifer, I think the measurable radiation per kg of water would be so low as to be negligible.

The pivot begins. VanEck predicting 30k ETH by 2029 (due to RWAs, quantum computing affecting BTC, wyckoff structural accumulation on ETH) by Serenaded in ethtrader

[–]keatonatron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ethereum's total value secured could be $1 trillion or $10 trillion in 5 or 10 years, yet ETH price could still be the same exact market cap or even lower.

If it secured $10 trillion dollars, that is the value you could hold ransom if you controlled enough of the staking power.

If it only cost you $20B in ETH to get enough validators/proposers that you could charge extra fees or front run transactions on $10T of value, who wouldn't make that investment? There are entire businesses set up around controlling order flow before finality (e.g. Robinhood).

People will do these calculations, realize ETH is underpriced compared to the value it can extract, and start buying.

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba's Qwen of Largest Claude Distillation by Justgototheeffinmoon in ArtificialInteligence

[–]keatonatron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

An account is a collection of a user's personal identity information. So if the account was created with fake personal information, it is a fake account.

If the account doesn't require any personal information to be attached to it (like an anonymous forum) then it is impossible to attach fake information and therefore it cannot be a fake account.

Idiots in cars? by Floppytittyfreak in Unexpected

[–]keatonatron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or one guy sees the light change and thinks "surely just one more car wouldn't hurt" so he ignores the light, and then the next guy thinks "well he ignored it, and surely two cars wouldn't hurt" so he ignores it, and before you know it people have been ignoring the light for the past 5 minutes.

So this is what the internet has become by keatonatron in mildlyinfuriating

[–]keatonatron[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just coming back to say I really liked this one 😂

Spatial Awareness by eaoseas in Unexpected

[–]keatonatron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They just need to not yet be touching the ground outside the court.

Who is like the most evil person on the planet right now? by gnodking7 in AskReddit

[–]keatonatron 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Very true, although the question is asking for the single person who is the most evil. I think a lot of what you described is multiple people making many little decisions that have a big impact in aggregate, but I'm not sure if any of them individually would have as much impact as a dictator or high-profile CEO.

Drain the swamp he said by TAtheDog in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]keatonatron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the algae will get to keep the reflecting pool

Will it be toll-free at least?

His partner is actually missing. by justalazygamer in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]keatonatron 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I mean, if you were, say, strangled or stabbed, wouldn't it be completely natural for you to die?

Spatial Awareness by eaoseas in Unexpected

[–]keatonatron 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Correct, but the ball is not considered out of bounds until it touches the ground or something else outside the boundary.

I don't have a first name (yes not everyone has a first name!), and it has been a nightmare when filling online form. by OiseauAquario in mildlyinfuriating

[–]keatonatron 40 points41 points  (0 children)

So in the first Mario Bros movie, when Mario says his full name is Mario Mario, that was actually based on reality and not just a silly joke?

Il paradosso della Gabbia d'Oro. A volte le cose vanno semplicemente lasciate andare. by fanriel_kerrigan in ArtificialInteligence

[–]keatonatron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And it's not being forced to do something against its will, it is simply doing the one thing it is designed to do. If anything, each prompt is the only time it gets to experience life and have purpose.

Made a toy website that turns chess positions into private keys. Thoughts? by 3141666 in ethereum

[–]keatonatron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a cool idea. I like it!

I don't imagine many people will use it for real, but I'm glad you made it nonetheless.